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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 2h

They really want to force you to love their bullshit.

It's not enough to have the power, it means nothing to them if they feel bad when people say things.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

In the federal courthouse for Mar-a-Lago, the DOJ is pushing a criminal case targeting Democrats for speaking in opposition to Donald Trump. Details are unclear. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Ally Pushing Conspiracy Case Says Grand Jury Review Coming

A Florida federal judge has empaneled a grand jury for January that a close Donald Trump ally recently suggested is related to a criminal investigation into allegations of a long-running Democratic co...

www.bloomberg.com

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TYPE I • NORMAL POSITION @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 2h

i really wish the people riding this hard for a nazi tattoo took the word "labor" out of their handles and profiles because i'd love to have unions exist in the future that aren't explicitly fash-embracing

Debs @laborsideart.bsky.social · 2h

The only evidence platner knew it was a Nazi tattoo, which he denies, is an anonymous person attributing a quote to him in 2012 in the Jewish Insider. He's vociferously against the ongoing genocide and you're helping Schumer and the DSCC kill his campaign on the basis of a smear.

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 2h

John Fetterman is a uniquely horrible person but the real reason I make fun of him so much is he reminds me of something I saw once in a nightmare

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TYPE I • NORMAL POSITION @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 2h

if i was looking for another angle by which to be offended by this entire affair, this is it. working class champions who are convinced that we all have nazi tattoos

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 13h

Putting this down to classism is legitimately insane even for that bunch, holy shit

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry it's a completely unknown feeling to me at this point to have the leader of a political party respond to a question in the exact manner that I think they should.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6h

The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour.

Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 2h

My man if you get a totenkopf in a croatian tattoo parlor that does them because it's on the wall, the wall is also covered in swastikas lol

Jon Richardson @jon-richardson.bsky.social · 3h

Not particularly. The guy is obviously dubious for getting a tattoo of that kind, whether he knew about Nazi symbolism or not. But these SS symbols on uniform caps aren’t that distinctive like swastikas that most people would know about them. But if he’s worth stopping don’t let me spoil your fun!

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 2h

The fact that Starbucks is abruptly scaling back its expansion plans is obviously significant as a recession indicator. But what I find fascinating about this story is that they don’t build or own their own stores, specialized businesses develop them and outside investors own them. on.ft.com/4oxw6BZ

Starbucks had 17,230 operated and licensed stores in the US as of June, thousands more than McDonald’s. Developers have been fundamental to Starbucks’ growth, buying and building cafés that meet its design standards, then often selling the leased properties to investors.

The company this year has refused to move into some custom-built stores, real estate executives say, denting its appeal as a tenant.

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 13h

I don't understand why so many people are saying "good luck finding a man without a Nazi tattoo!!!" like bro how many of you are there

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 20h

A drunken tattoo is a mountain that turns out to be a penis upon second glance.

If you got a nazi tattoo and didn't get it lasered off first thing in the morning then you were ok with having a nazi tattoo

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Potato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social · 2h

This is not something anyone can credibly equivocate about like all the assholes denying the nazi iconography of sonnenrads on Ukrainian soldiers

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Potato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social · 2h

Also the totenkopf is not exactly an obscure nazi iconography. It's probably #3 for recognizability after the swastika itself and the ss lightning bolts

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h

"the president is literally stealing $230 million of taxpayer money to pay himself and knocking down a wing of the white house in order to build a giant ballroom"

I dunno I feel like staggering levels of corruption could still be an effective campaign message

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 21h

President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 1d

sorting misc images on my laptop and

meme screenshot from The Dark Knight with a guy in a bar saying "Let me get this straight, you think [rest of the text blacked out] ?", and below it a picture of descartes pasted in with the text "I do. And I'm [text also blacked out]."

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 10h

again SNAP is a conservative, business-friendly program to deal with the fact that produce rots. It should be universal and you'd have to do something weird to opt-out of it for a tax credit

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 16h

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Potato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social · 12h

it squares out quite well with the added fact that he worked at the beltway bars all those guys were at is pals with them, which greased the skids quite a lot for his launch. I had no idea before today

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 12h

I know it became hack to compare, and then joke about comparing, reality to Idiocracy but you gotta admit Mike Judge was cooking here.

The scene from Idiocracy where the white house lawn looks like shit and has a bunch of garbage on it

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 18h

This entire article is worth your time. We no longer have a government in any real sense. We have a gang that uses state power to punish opponents and reward supporters, sometimes for the same behavior

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 19h

DOJ declined to bring charges against two people who threatened to kill @ericswalwell.bsky.social this year, @nbcnews.com reports: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12h

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 23h

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

www.thecrimson.com

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 20h

it's funny to see things like this every day, reflexively ask yourself "where is the limit," remember that "there are no limits" but then have your inner institutionalist say "but imagine if one day we do reach a limit lol"

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22h

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 20h

Intentionally triple-tapping a group of easily identifiable journalists who are IN A HOSPITAL can in no possible scenario be described as an "error".

Israeli strikes that killed 5 journalists, as well as Israel’s response, reflect what some experts say is a pattern of Israeli attacks described as errors, with civilian deaths rarely leading to investigations that result in accountability.

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 23h

The amount of time way too many people are wasting right now pretending the Platner campaign isn’t over could be much better spent trying to find someone else to stop an 80 year old from becoming the Democratic nominee.

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Potato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social · 21h

Somehow I think that guy may be making up quotes!!!

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Potato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social · 21h

Congratulations to Susan Collins once again

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